Linaria dalmatica subsp. dalmatica

Dalmatian toadflax, Dalmatian Toadflax

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Conservation status: Cal-IPC Yes

Dalmatian toadflax is a naturalized perennial herb found in northwestern California, the Cascade Range, northern Sierra Nevada, Central Valley, central western California, eastern Great Basin, and southern California at elevations below 2,080 meters in roadsides, fields, open areas in yellow-pine forest, pinyon and juniper woodland, and sagebrush scrub. Flowering from April to September, this plant produces bright yellow flowers with a distinctive lower lip that is densely white to orange-hairy, forming blooms 20 to 50 millimeters long. Growing with erect, branched stems 20 to 120 centimeters tall, it develops a robust and spreading habit. Its leaves are crowded, rigid, and lanceolate to ovate, measuring less than 60 millimeters long, with acute to long-tapered tips that slightly clasp the stem. The small seed capsules are 3 to 7 millimeters long, containing pyramid-shaped seeds with distinct ridges.

Habitat: Roadsides, fields, open areas in yellow-pine forest, pinyon/juniper woodland, sagebrush scrub

Bloom period: Apr-Sep

Elevation: < 2080 m

Bioregions: NW (exc NCoRH), CaR, n SN, GV, CW (exc SCoRI), SW (exc ChI, SnJt), GB (exc Wrn, W&ampI)

California counties: Mono, Modoc, Sierra, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Trinity, Butte, El Dorado, San Bernardino, Placer, Santa Clara, Nevada, Yolo, Kern, Sacramento, Siskiyou, Ventura, Alpine, Monterey

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.